Cory's Ye Olde Blogge

Friday, April 29, 2011

I was recently made aware of a collective blog of several kids who, among other awesome things, apparently like my drawings! They post their own original work as well as occasional studies and paintings based on some of my work. Pretty awesome!

Friday, April 22, 2011

I've been a little slump the last few days, finishing up several rush jobs and all around feeling bogged down. I wanted something to break that before I dive into my annual sketchbook for 2011 (previously, 2008, 2009, 2010) so I stumble across this ArtOrder challenge. I've never done one for ArtOrder before but I love the site (I got a nice mention a month or so back) and this time the challenge was to recreate the scene in The Return of the King where Éowyn fights the Nazgul. There's nothing like Tolkien to recharge batteries so I've gone for it. You can be the judge as to whether or not it's been successful. Either way I got what I needed out of it (and got to draw a monster.)

I'll be posting the progression of the piece. Beginning with the thumbnail here.

For good or ill, I settled on this composition quickly. I looked at this challenge as a fun exercise and didn't want to agonize over it. I wanted it to jump start my drawing again and at least in that respect I've found the endeavor successful.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Hard for me to express the satisfaction and excitement I felt when I saw my name on the Spectrum 18 list. I've entered the annual the last five years but never made it. I saw the list was posted and clicked over not thinking one way or the other when BAM! what did I see but my name on the list. So excited.

Friday, April 15, 2011

I vanished for a little bit there, I took a the last three weeks or month or whatever off of blogging (sort of unintentionally, then intentionally) been using my free time to plan a whole lot of new things. That and the last couple weeks have been pretty busy with client work.

I've been going back and forth for quite a while as to what my big personal project this year would be and I think I've finally settled on it (it was a toss up between three competing projects.)

A couple things and then I'll be getting back to my regular M/W/F posting schedule.

This is a dream come true for me, I've been entering every year since college and this is my firsttime to be accepted. I'm still not sure which of my entrie(s) were accepted.

This is the piece I did specifically for Spectrum (along with several other pieces from this past year) so I'm hoping it was this one.

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Here's a round up of what I've been doing on the internet in the mean time since my last blog post. Mostly this is from Twitter where I hang out all the time.

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I tend to take pictures of my cat James with Photo Booth all the time, he wanders across my desk and plops down so frequently. Well, I discovered Photo Booth on my iMac can take video. I accidentally set it to that and captured real, genuine Cory surprise. Click for the unintentional video.

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If you know me at all you'll know one of my favorite things is Nintendo. I even just love them as a company. When asked about their competition any response is some variation of "We don't look at what others are doing, we compete with ourselves. If you look at what everyone else is doing you only become reactive." That's so applicable to art (and a great deal many other things.) Anyway, the new Nintendo 3DS came out at the end of March. It's an amazing little machine. And I'm pleased to report that I can see the 3D. (Can't really see 3D movies so this is extra great for me.)

And hey, if you want, I can invade your 3DS, should you choose.

Anyone else on 3DS? Here's my friend code 4296 - 2997 - 9796

Oh and hey, here's the first 3D picture I took with my 3DS, a disorienting, seizure inducing photograph of my cat James.